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Text of paper, 'Psychiatric aspects of homicide', by Hannes Petursson and Gisli Gudjonsson, with related correspondence and Hannes Petursson' CV, CLOSED for review 2068

Correspondence and draft relating to paper 'Developments in British Forensic Psychiatry', given by John Gunn at the sixth International Symposium in Law and Psychiatry at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, University of Virginia. Includes personal correspondence, CLOSED for review 2061

General case notes series of patients under the care of a number of doctors at King's College Hospital covering a range of specialisms. The diseases described during the period 1928-1939 are indexed on individual record cards with the physician name and hospital register numbers (KH/IN2/1-4), 689 boxes

Letters of thanks from relatives of former patients. Also correspondence relating to requests for admissions, invitations to give talks, visits to the hospice, and work at St Christopher's Hospice. File also includes correspondence, 1965, with Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain (1895-1966), on the legal status of diamorphine, and correspondence with pharmaceutical company Bayer Products on clinical trials for analgesics, 1964. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence, chiefly with Dr Ruben Edgar Bild, Director of Fundacion Prager Bild, relating to conferences on palliative care in Buenos Aires, 1986 and 1989, and to Bild's cousin Harvey Prager (a convicted drug smuggler who ran an AIDS hospice in Maine, USA). Sensitive and personal data in the file is CLOSED during Dr Bild's lifetime.

Correspondence on topics including St Christopher's Hospice, possible work opportunities, personal references, hospice developments in Australia, individual patients and pain medication. File includes published articles, reports on palliative care, and newsletters and planning documents relating to hospice services. File also includes: correspondence, 1983-1985, with Dr John Cavanagh, Mount Olivet Hospital, Brisbane, relating to the use of the Copeland-Chatterson (Cope Chat) punch card system for patient data; correspondence, 1985, with Dr Douglas MacAdam, Senior Lecturer in Community Practice, University of Western Australia, concerning his research on the development of palliative care services in Western Australia. Sensitive and personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2071.

Correspondence including invitations to visit and to give lectures, requests for interviews and discussions of euthanasia. File includes correspondence, 1980-1991, with Prof David B Allbrook (b 1923), concerning working at St Christopher's Hospice, with references and his CV. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2023.

Correspondence on topics including information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice, and the development of a hospice service in Brussels. File includes correspondence, 1983, with Prof Jean Bernheim, Insitut Bordet, Brussels, concerning his request for a contribution to a series of monographs on the quality of life for cancer patients, produced by the European Organisation for Research on the Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). In English and French. Sensitive data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2068.

Correspondence including: requests for advice on the care of terminally ill patients or relatives; Canadian hospice services; visits to St Christopher's Hospice; requests for published and unpublished articles and papers; the Special Committee of the Senate of Canada on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, 1994. File also includes correspondence, 1960-1968, with neurosurgeon Dr Frank Turnbull, concerning research on pain management. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2078.

Correspondence chiefly relating to patients under Cicely Saunders' care, including requests for admissions and letters of thanks from relatives. Also discussions of drug use with pharmaceutical companies, and correspondence, 1963-1964, with Brig Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes (1892-1973), concerning trials of a new bed pad at St Joseph's. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2053.

Correspondence on topics including: information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice; conference invitations; work placements; press interviews. Files include conference papers, press cuttings and published articles, including an article on St Christopher's published in Medical Tribune, March 1974; article about Cicely Saunders (with English translation), published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 1988; interview with Saunders published in View, 1996. In German and English. Files includes sensitive personal data and are CLOSED for review in 2080.

Letters of thanks from relatives of former patients. Also correspondence concerning medical advice, drug deliveries, requests for data, and Saunders' photographs of patients. File also includes brief notes by Saunders on the representation of St Joseph's in a television play, 'I want to go home', by Bernard Kops, 1963. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2050.

Correspondence chiefly relating to the development of hospice services in India, notably the Shanti Avedna Ashram (now the Shanti Avedna Sadan) hospice, Bombay. File includes correspondence, 1980-1996, with Dr Luzito J de Souza, managing trustee, on topics including: the establishment and development of the hospice; fundraising; palliative care treatment options; the development of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore, Pakistan; conference invitations; published articles; work placements at St Christopher's Hospice. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2060.

Correspondence on topics including: St Christopher's Hospice; work placements; pain management; the hospice movement in Israel; Cicely Saunders' visits to Israel. File includes correspondence, 1985-1991, with Dr Catherine F Musgrave, Hadassah Medical Organisation, on topics including Musgrave's visit to St Christopher's Hospice, and subsequent articles by Musgrave. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2069.

Correspondence chiefly relating to Cicely Saunders' work at St Joseph's Hospice including requests for admissions, letters of thanks from relatives, requests for medical advice, comment on the planning and early years of Christopher's Hospice, and personal correspondence with former St Joseph's colleagues. File also includes correspondence, 1961-1965, with Nicholas Laboratories Ltd, concerning the clinical testing of analgesics. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence on topics including: information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice; conference invitations; the hospice movement in New Zealand; pain management. File includes: published articles; draft extracts from Communication in cancer care by Ivan Lichter (London, Churchill Livingston, 1987); a report, 'The care of the terminally ill' produced by the Wellington Health Services Advisory Committee, December 1981. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2050.

Correspondence and related papers, chiefly concerning Cicely Saunders' 1978 visit to Poland, including press cuttings and posters. Also correspondence relating to information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice, requests for published articles, and personal correspondence with Polish friends. File also includes: photographs of a visit by Archbishop Karol Józef Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) to Nowa Huta, Kraków, Poland, 1973; literature on Polish medical institutions, including the Institute of Oncology, Warsaw; a press cuttings on the hospice movement and the significance of Saunders' former Polish patient, Antoni Michniewicz. In English and Polish. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2063.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; the relief of chronic pain; teaching at St Christopher's; conferences; requests for published articles. File includes correspondence, 1986-1991, with Dr Xavier Gomez Batiste-Alentorn, Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona, on the establishment of hospice services in Barcelona. File also includes sensitive personal data which is CLOSED for review in 2079.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice, including a visit by the Under Secretary for Long Term Care in the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1976; Cicely Saunders' attendance at a conference of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, Chicago, 1973; the history of the hospice movement; publications. File also includes invitations, leaflets, press cuttings and articles. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; information about St Christopher's; proposed US lectures by Cicely Saunders; congratulations; publications; art therapy; occupational therapy. File includes correspondence, 1978-1981, with Prof Leo K Bustad (1920-1998), Dean and Professor of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, 1978-1981, concerning a visit to St Christopher's Hospice and the use of pet therapy. Also articles, notes, press cuttings and conference leaflets. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2045.